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Spell of the Twelve Caves
The Spell of the Twelve Caves, or Book of the Twelve Caverns, is an Egyptian funerary text listing the deities of the twelve caverns of the underworld.
Spellbound (1945 film)
Spellbound (1945) is Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck, produced by David O. Selznick, with a Salvador Dalí-designed dream sequence and Miklós Rózsa's Oscar-winning theremin score, based on The House of Dr. Edwardes.
Spellbound (2002 film)
Spellbound (2002) is Jeffrey Blitz's Oscar-nominated documentary following eight children, including winner Nupur Lala, through the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee; it grossed $5.7 million and won an Emmy.
Spellbound (2024 film)
Spellbound (2024) is a Netflix animated musical from Skydance Animation, directed by Vicky Jenson, with songs by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater. Princess Ellian (Rachel Zegler) seeks to restore her monster-transformed parents (Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem); released November 22, 2024.
Spelling
Spelling, the conventional written forms of a language's words, here chiefly English orthography: Old English was fairly phonemic, but the Norman Conquest, printing, and the Great Vowel Shift left English the most irregular alphabetic spelling system, resistant to reform since Johnson and Webster.
Spelling alphabet
A spelling alphabet, also called a radiotelephony or phonetic alphabet, is a fixed set of code words, one per letter, used to spell words clearly over radio and telephone.
Spelling bee
Spelling bee: oral spelling competition, mainly American, in which students spell words aloud until one remains. Best known via the Scripps National Spelling Bee (since 1925); 2026 champion Shrey Parikh set a spell-off record of 32 words in 90 seconds.
Spelling correction
Spelling correction is the automatic detection of misspelled words in text and selection of a replacement, a natural language processing task dating to the early 1960s.
Spelman College
Spelman College, formerly Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary and Spelman Seminary, is a private historically Black women's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1881.
Spelt
Spelt, also known as Triticum spelta or Dinkel wheat, is a hulled wheat grown as a cereal crop and a major bread grain in Central Europe into the 20th century.
Spelunky
Spelunky: Derek Yu's roguelike-inspired 2D platformer, freeware in 2008, HD on XBLA July 4, 2012; procedurally generated levels, permadeath, Metacritic 87, sequel Spelunky 2 in 2020.
Spemann-Mangold organizer
Spemann-Mangold organizer (Spemann organizer): amphibian dorsal blastopore lip inducing a secondary embryonic axis; discovered by Spemann and Mangold in 1924; signals via BMP, Wnt, and Nodal antagonists such as Chordin and Noggin.
Spence (mine)
Spence is a large open-pit copper mine in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, wholly owned and operated by BHP, producing copper cathode and concentrates since 2006.
Spencer (film)
Spencer (2021) is a psychological drama directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, starring Kristen Stewart as Diana, Princess of Wales, imagining her 1991 Christmas at Sandringham as she decides to leave Prince Charles; Venice premiere, Oscar-nominated performance.
Spencer 1882
The Spencer 1882 is a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun designed by Christopher Spencer and Sylvester Roper, patented in 1882 and recognized as the first commercially successful, mass-produced pump-action shotgun.
Spencer Arrighetti
Spencer Arrighetti (born 2000) is an MLB right-handed pitcher, drafted by Houston in 2021, 2024 Astros Rookie of the Year, traded to the Toronto Blue Jays in August 2026 for Daulton Varsho.
Spencer B. King
Spencer B. King is an American interventional cardiologist in Atlanta who led the EAST trial of angioplasty versus bypass surgery and built Emory's interventional cardiology program.
Spencer Bloch
Spencer Janney Bloch, born in 1944, is an American mathematician and emeritus professor at the University of Chicago known for algebraic cycles, higher K-theory, and the Bloch–Kato conjectures.
Spencer Breslin
Spencer Breslin (born 1992, New York) is an American actor and producer, older brother of Abigail Breslin, known for Disney's The Kid, The Santa Clause 2/3, The Cat in the Hat, and later independent films.
Spencer Cox
Spencer J. Cox is an American Republican politician who has served as the 18th governor of Utah since 2021, after being lieutenant governor from 2013.
Spencer Danielson
Spencer Danielson, Boise State Broncos head football coach since December 2023, former defensive coordinator; won three straight Mountain West titles, led 2024 College Football Playoff run, extended through 2030.
Spencer Davis
Spencer Davis (Spencer David Nelson Davies, 1939-2020) was the Welsh guitarist and bandleader who founded the Spencer Davis Group in Birmingham in 1963, whose R&B hits Keep On Running, Somebody Help Me, Gimme Some Lovin' and I'm a Man featured teenage Steve Winwood, and who later became an Island Records executive.
Spencer Deery
Spencer Deery is an American politician and Republican member of the Indiana Senate from the 23rd district, elected in 2022 after working at Purdue University.
Spencer Dinwiddie
Spencer Dinwiddie, born 1993 in Los Angeles, is an American NBA guard (Pistons, Nets, Wizards, Mavericks, Lakers) drafted 38th overall in 2014 from Colorado; 2022 WCF with Dallas, now with Bayern Munich in the EuroLeague.
Spencer Dryden
Spencer Charles Dryden (1938–2005), American drummer for Jefferson Airplane 1966–1970 and New Riders of the Purple Sage 1971–1978; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, 1996; son of Wheeler Dryden, Charlie Chaplin's half-brother.
Spencer family
The Spencer family is an English aristocratic dynasty that rose from Northamptonshire sheep-farming wealth and has been seated at Althorp since 1508.
Spencer Fano
Spencer Fano, Utah Utes offensive tackle from Spanish Fork, Utah; 2025 Outland Trophy winner and unanimous All-American; drafted ninth overall by the Cleveland Browns in 2026, first offensive lineman taken, with short arms (32 1/8 inches) as his main scouting concern.
Spencer Fleischer
Spencer Fleischer is a private equity executive who co-founded FFL Partners, originally Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, in San Francisco in 1997 with Tully Friedman after a 19-year Morgan Stanley career.
Spencer Foreman
Spencer Foreman (1935–2013) was an American physician-executive who led Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx from 1986 to 2007, building it into a thriving academic medical center.
Spencer Fox
Spencer Fox is an American actor, writer, and musician best known as the original voice of Dash Parr in Pixar's The Incredibles (2004), later a guitarist with Charly Bliss.